What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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“Where’s your autopilot?”

“You’re looking at it”

“All I see is a bunch of cogs and shafts. Where’s the computer?”

“That’s the computer”

“You have a *clockwork* jumpdrive. For the love of Eris, why?”

“The best human takes forty seconds to recover from jumpshock. There isn’t a digital computer that can tell a one from a zero in under a minute postjump. Belinda here will have us into the next wormhole before those customs cutters chasing us stop drooling.”

“You *named* this abomination”

“Hey, no cause to be mean to her! You can get out and walk anytime, friend.”

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@mro@digitalcourage.social I think you're completely right. I've had the privilege of attending two in-person conferences related to ActivityPub—FOSDEM and Fedicon—and the difference between them and collaborating online is staggering.

I'm not so sure about the assertion that "big shots" weren't on SocialHub as a cause of it being sidelined. While the big names (e.g. Evan from SWF, Renaud/Claire from Mastodon, Nutomic from Lemmy, to name a few) don't post there often, they do show up from time to time, which goes to show that something like a forum does have a place in online collaboration.

Perhaps it is a question of whether there is enough derived value from participating in SocialHub.

I will say this, though, that I have far too much going on with my life (work, family, hobbies, more work) to dedicate the appropriate mind-share to yet another social website. I happen to participate in SocialHub discussions purely because I can do so from my own ActivityPub-enabled software. Occasionally I visit the site directly when I am directly mentioned (and later emailed about it.)

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The issue of SocialHub is an interesting one, because where we are today is an odd situation where you have activitypub developers fragmented across multiple collaborative channels.

  • Some discuss their issues on their respective repositories only
  • Some discuss on SocialHub
  • Some discuss on Matrix channels

However, the bottom line truth is as follows: every ActivityPub developer is on the fediverse, ergo why shouldn't ActivityPub-focused discussions take place on the fediverse as well?

Up until this year, SocialHub has been an island separate from the fediverse. I used this analogy in my talk at fedicon to describe how lonely starting a community can be.

To SocialHub's credit, they have created a community of ActivityPub developers that exists to this day, kudos to them! The question remains now whether SocialHub performing their function adequately — to bring together ActivityPub developers of all stripes.

That's a question worth exploring in and of itself.

cc @fediversereport@mastodon.social @julian@activitypub.space

Separately, it's worth addressing the fact that developer conversations do take place on the fediverse. It happens organically all the time, because like I said above, all activitypub developers are on the fediverse.

The problem here is that the de facto implementation is Mastodon, and the conversations taking place on Mastodon are by design ephemeral.

Arguments can be made that Mastodon does keep a copy of all of the conversations, and one need only look for them, but they're buried in such a way as to be essentially lost to history forever. You've probably tried looking for something you or someone else said, and started scrolling a profile feed endlessly looking for it... don't lie, we've all done it.

This is where we can throw technology at the problem... by building really good search, we can mitigate some of these losses. However this relies on people to actually use the search functionality, which is hard to guarantee :slightly_smiling_face:

Another solution is proper categorization of content... and this is where you'll say I have a bias. I certainly do! I'm a purveyor of forum software... the age old way of communicating online where stuff gets categorized and organized topically. To add this layer of human organization on top gets us that much closer to ensuring that the discussions we have and the discoveries we make are not simply lost to time, but preserved for future developers to re-discover and re-consume.

cc @fediversereport@mastodon.social @julian@activitypub.space

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The issue of SocialHub is an interesting one, because where we are today is an odd situation where you have activitypub developers fragmented across multiple collaborative channels.

  • Some discuss their issues on their respective repositories only
  • Some discuss on SocialHub
  • Some discuss on Matrix channels

However, the bottom line truth is as follows: every ActivityPub developer is on the fediverse, ergo why shouldn't ActivityPub-focused discussions take place on the fediverse as well?

Up until this year, SocialHub has been an island separate from the fediverse. I used this analogy in my talk at fedicon to describe how lonely starting a community can be.

To SocialHub's credit, they have created a community of ActivityPub developers that exists to this day, kudos to them! The question remains now whether SocialHub performing their function adequately — to bring together ActivityPub developers of all stripes.

That's a question worth exploring in and of itself.

cc @fediversereport@mastodon.social @julian@activitypub.space

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Yes, a good article addrressing important subjects. I would like to emphasize that the challenge of SocialHub represents the same challenge faced by the fediverse at large. The "there is no shared vision" is one of major fediverse challenges I identified in 2022.

The paradox of decentralization is that the further things decentralize the more we have to rely on quality technology standards to facilitate that. The social landscape we want is one where inclusive progressive and forward-looking movements can freely interact and engage, and express themself. So decentralization, where people can be who they want to be, and a culture that fosters cohesion and unison that binds and unites, offers safe places for belonging, creative spaces for collaboration and cocreation.

Such is the original promise of the ActivityPub protocol. To provide the robust technical foundations and interoperability that leads us into the future of social networking.

This promise will not be met, unless we solve the paradox and learn to collaborate more effectively beyond the scope of our own direct initiatives. I joined SocialHub as facilitator in 2019 to gain first-hand experience with the difficult grassroots fediverse environment. And found along the way that "community" is an inadequate organization form to support of the end-to-end development lifecycle at an ecosystem level. And that in fact no organization form existed that was a good match for our chaotic fediverse environment. This I made the focus of my current activities at Social coding commons: elaborating a chaordic organization formula for a sustainable social web that is able to evolve.

https://coding.social

In this organization form autonomous and independent parties within the grassroots ecosystem are able to cocreate and exchange services in a commons based value economy. Instead of unsustainable FOSS, they evolve Sustainable open social systems (SOSS), where Sustainability-at-all-times is key.

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"라식수술 필요 없다"…1분 만에 시력 교정하는 기술 나왔다 - ZDNet korea

zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=202508211

연구진은 각막의 구성 성분을 이용해 어떤 조직도 잘라내지 않고 각막의 형태를 바꾸는 방식을 제안했다. 주로 콜라겐으로 이루어진 각막은 전하를 띤 분자와 단백질의 배열 덕분에 형태를 유지한다. 연구진은 특별히 설계된 백금 콘택트렌즈에 저전류를 흘려 보내 조직의 pH를 변화시켜 각막 조직의 산성도를 높여 모양을 바꿀 수 있다는 것을 발견했다.

이후 전류가 멈추면 pH가 정상으로 돌아오면서 각막은 다시 단단해지고 원래 모양을 유지하게 된다. 이 과정은 1분 정도 소요되며, 조직을 절개하거나 제거할 필요가 없다. 이 방법은 실험 샘플에서 구조적 손상이 나타나지 않았고 세포 생존율도 유지됐다. 연구진은 EMR이 라식 수술을 대체할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다

헐.....?? 실용화되면 혁명인데?

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"라식수술 필요 없다"…1분 만에 시력 교정하는 기술 나왔다 - ZDNet korea

zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=202508211

연구진은 각막의 구성 성분을 이용해 어떤 조직도 잘라내지 않고 각막의 형태를 바꾸는 방식을 제안했다. 주로 콜라겐으로 이루어진 각막은 전하를 띤 분자와 단백질의 배열 덕분에 형태를 유지한다. 연구진은 특별히 설계된 백금 콘택트렌즈에 저전류를 흘려 보내 조직의 pH를 변화시켜 각막 조직의 산성도를 높여 모양을 바꿀 수 있다는 것을 발견했다.

이후 전류가 멈추면 pH가 정상으로 돌아오면서 각막은 다시 단단해지고 원래 모양을 유지하게 된다. 이 과정은 1분 정도 소요되며, 조직을 절개하거나 제거할 필요가 없다. 이 방법은 실험 샘플에서 구조적 손상이 나타나지 않았고 세포 생존율도 유지됐다. 연구진은 EMR이 라식 수술을 대체할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다

헐.....?? 실용화되면 혁명인데?

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"라식수술 필요 없다"…1분 만에 시력 교정하는 기술 나왔다 - ZDNet korea

zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=202508211

연구진은 각막의 구성 성분을 이용해 어떤 조직도 잘라내지 않고 각막의 형태를 바꾸는 방식을 제안했다. 주로 콜라겐으로 이루어진 각막은 전하를 띤 분자와 단백질의 배열 덕분에 형태를 유지한다. 연구진은 특별히 설계된 백금 콘택트렌즈에 저전류를 흘려 보내 조직의 pH를 변화시켜 각막 조직의 산성도를 높여 모양을 바꿀 수 있다는 것을 발견했다.

이후 전류가 멈추면 pH가 정상으로 돌아오면서 각막은 다시 단단해지고 원래 모양을 유지하게 된다. 이 과정은 1분 정도 소요되며, 조직을 절개하거나 제거할 필요가 없다. 이 방법은 실험 샘플에서 구조적 손상이 나타나지 않았고 세포 생존율도 유지됐다. 연구진은 EMR이 라식 수술을 대체할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다

헐.....?? 실용화되면 혁명인데?

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なんというか人の生い立ちって想像以上にめちゃくちゃ幅があって、何かに憧れたときには既に決定的に遠くの分岐に乗っていましたということはあるなと感じる

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